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Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day
A Nobel laureate’s environmentally friendly invention that provides clean water if central supplies are knocked out by a hurricane or drought, could be a life saver for vulnerable islands, its founder says.
The invention, by the chemist Prof Omar Yaghi, uses a type of science called...
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?
Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.
Recruitment of children for study delayed after MHRA warns that participants should be no younger than 14
A clinical trial into puberty blockers for children has been paused after the medicines regulator warned it should have a minimum age limit of 14 because of the “unquantified risk” of “long-term biological harms”.
Discussions between the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...
Authorities suspect renowned astronomer Carl Grillmair was shot by 29-year-old man arrested for nearby carjacking
A renowned California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied distant planets and other areas of astronomy for decades was recently shot to death at his home in a rural community outside Los Angeles, authorities said.
Carl Grillmair, 67, died from a bullet wound to...
Administrator Jared Isaacman cites ‘major progress’ since earlier discovery of liquid hydrogen leaking from rocket
Nasa said on Friday it was planning to launch its delayed Artemis II moon mission on 6 March after successfully completing a fueling test that had caused it to stand down earlier this month.
Jared Isaacman, the space agency’s newly confirmed administrator, cited “major...
This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: “We totally reject global governance of AI.”
Michael Silevitch leads a research center dedicated to protecting busy public spaces. Last April, he was instructed to “end all work” immediately.
Tech workers are increasingly worried that the artificial intelligence they are building will replace them. But some are optimistic that it is just one more tool to work with.
Baroness Kidron tells the BBC the PM has being “late to the party” in regulating social media.
Clips of Deadpool and other film characters have sparked alarm within Hollywood over copyright infringement.
Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process
It is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now researchers say they have fresh insights into how the ultra-red, 4bn-year-old body known as Arrokoth came to have its distinctive snowman-like shape.
Arrokoth sits in the Kuiper belt, a vast, thick...
The company says it has addressed the issue and it “did not provide anyone access to information they weren’t already authorised to see”.
My father, Desmond McConnell, who has died aged 95, made a great contribution to mineralogy, inspiring scientists around the world.
At Cambridge University in the 1960s and 70s, with the excellent X-ray diffraction facilities in the Mineralogy Department, he developed work first published by his crystallographer colleagues, Peter Gay and Mike Bown, on the incommensurate behaviour (ie falling...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused.
The state’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that the company declined to use tools that recognize the material stored on iCloud.
As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world
In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of...
The Gates Foundation said the decision was made to “ensure the focus remains on the summit’s key priorities”.
Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample and science correspondent Nicola Davis to discuss three eye-catching stories, including the impact of a powerful psychedelic on depression, answers on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and an explanation to the mystery of why humans have chins
Single dose of potent psychedelic drug could help treat depression, trial...
Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences
What was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have thought. As soon as you try to record and categorise the contents of your consciousness – the sense impressions, feelings, words, images, daydreams, mind-wanderings, ruminations, deliberations,...